THE LAST MAN

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The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. The Last Man was first published in 1826. The book tells of tragic love in a future world where a plague causes the gradual extermination of the human race. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.